blp

Hi all
Got an STi V. When ever its cold, with 60 seconds of starting the engine and driving off, the engine stalls and i have to restart. Seems to occur when i get to a t junction or roundabout.

The idle unit is clean and fine, as are the soloniods.

Any ideas? Anyone else had the same problem?

Cheers

Brett

Andy555

I would have thought that it would be better to wait longer than 60 seconds after starting??

Wait until the car has reached operating tempature before driving off. Do less damage to the engine, especially when really cold. IMHO.

Brun

I think most manufacturers recommend against leaving a car idleing for a sustained period of time IIRC. Anyway thats just a quick fix for a problem.

chrisp

Yep the concensus seems to be drive off immediately and stay below 3,000rpm until the car has warmed up. Also trouble with going off the water temp gauage is that the water is warm but the oil is not. Mine shows normal water temp and oil temp still hasnt moved from 50C (lowest point on guage). I usual wait unitl its at least 80C oil temp before using a few more revs.

As for the stalling have you done any mods, i.e. induction kit, replacement non OE filter, non OE dump valve ?

Dan B

Does it "kangaroo" as well? Maybe the lambda sensor.

Andy Tang

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If your idle hunts as well, I would hazzard a guess at the MAF sensor!

midget1500

<<Wait until the car has reached operating tempature before driving off. Do less damage to the engine, especially when really cold. IMHO. >>

this is totally wrong. drive it immediately (to do with combustion gases being acidic etc) and idling car does not warm up transmission fluids.

blp

No mods, i generally drive off soon after starting the engine, and keep it below 3500 until the oil temp reaches normal, which is about 2 mins.

Brun

2 mins

Philip Attaway

Are you sure you are not looking at your water temp

Brun

My water temp hasn't hardly moved in this weather after two minutes. Must be watching the oil pressure gauge